linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ipv6: Honor route mtu if it is within limit of dev mtu

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Date:   Wed, 24 Feb 2021 10:47:21 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
        David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>
Cc:     Kaustubh Pandey <kapandey@...eaurora.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, sharathv@...eaurora.org,
        chinagar@...eaurora.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv6: Honor route mtu if it is within limit of dev mtu

On Mon, 22 Feb 2021 22:02:35 +0530 Kaustubh Pandey wrote:
> When netdevice MTU is increased via sysfs, NETDEV_CHANGEMTU is raised.
> 
> addrconf_notify -> rt6_mtu_change -> rt6_mtu_change_route ->
> fib6_nh_mtu_change
> 
> As part of handling NETDEV_CHANGEMTU notification we land up on a
> condition where if route mtu is less than dev mtu and route mtu equals
> ipv6_devconf mtu, route mtu gets updated.
> 
> Due to this v6 traffic end up using wrong MTU then configured earlier.
> This commit fixes this by removing comparison with ipv6_devconf
> and updating route mtu only when it is greater than incoming dev mtu.
> 
> This can be easily reproduced with below script:
> pre-condition:
> device up(mtu = 1500) and route mtu for both v4 and v6 is 1500
> 
> test-script:
> ip route change 192.168.0.0/24 dev eth0 src 192.168.0.1 mtu 1400
> ip -6 route change 2001::/64 dev eth0 metric 256 mtu 1400
> echo 1400 > /sys/class/net/eth0/mtu
> ip route change 192.168.0.0/24 dev eth0 src 192.168.0.1 mtu 1500
> echo 1500 > /sys/class/net/eth0/mtu
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kaustubh Pandey <kapandey@...eaurora.org>
> ---
>  net/ipv6/route.c | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/ipv6/route.c b/net/ipv6/route.c
> index 1536f49..653b6c7 100644
> --- a/net/ipv6/route.c
> +++ b/net/ipv6/route.c
> @@ -4813,8 +4813,7 @@ static int fib6_nh_mtu_change(struct fib6_nh *nh, void *_arg)
>  		struct inet6_dev *idev = __in6_dev_get(arg->dev);
>  		u32 mtu = f6i->fib6_pmtu;
>  
> -		if (mtu >= arg->mtu ||
> -		    (mtu < arg->mtu && mtu == idev->cnf.mtu6))
> +		if (mtu >= arg->mtu)
>  			fib6_metric_set(f6i, RTAX_MTU, arg->mtu);
>  
>  		spin_lock_bh(&rt6_exception_lock);

David, Hideaki - any thoughts on this one? Can we change this long
standing behavior?